Online service for mental health help

Online service for mental health help

Mental Healthy would like to introduce you to a service we believe to be most valuable. If you haven't heard about it already Big White Wall is helping thousands of people dealing with mental illness, and here is how:

bigwhitewall.com (BWW) is a digital mental health and wellbeing service that has been designated a High Impact Innovation by the NHS. It places people at the centre of their own care and delivers personalised pathways to recovery through a range of safe therapeutic services from the comfort of their own homes. It’s safe, anonymous and available 24/7.

BWW currently covers 22% of the UK population and is also free to all members of the Armed Forces community: Veterans, Serving Personnel and their families.

BWW is an online community. Amongst its services, members can talk anonymously to others who may have similar experiences, get brief counseling support (Wall Guides) or take part in self-managed and facilitated programmes for individuals and groups. Programmes include anxiety, depression, sleep, smoking and alcohol use. Members can also express how they feel, by making ‘bricks’, a form of creative self-expression.

There’s also a wealth of information and tests, which members can access at any time to help them understand more about issues they may be experiencing, and how they can take steps towards feeling better.

This combined with peer and professional support leads to 95% of members reporting improved wellbeing and 73% sharing an issue for the first time.